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🏭 Time spent dealing with the requirements of government regulations

Average percentage of senior management’s time that is spent in a typical week dealing with requirements imposed by government regulations (eg.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
30.1% – 10.4%9.7% – 6.9%6.9% – 5.0%4.9% – 3.1%2.7% – 0.1%No data
1
🇰🇲Comoros
30.1%
2
🇲🇼Malawi
28.9%
3
🇫🇷France
15.5%
4
🇬🇦Gabon
14.9%
5
🇧🇿Belize
14.6%
6
🇧🇴Bolivia
14.6%
7
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
14.3%
8
🇧🇷Brazil
14.0%
9
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
12.4%
10
🇬🇳Guinea
11.7%
11
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
10.5%
12
🇫🇯Fiji
10.4%
13
🇧🇪Belgium
10.4%
14
🇦🇫Afghanistan
9.7%
15
🇩🇪Germany
9.6%
16
🇵🇱Poland
8.8%
17
🇲🇿Mozambique
8.2%
18
🇦🇹Austria
8.1%
19
🇦🇺Australia
8.1%
20
🇱🇹Lithuania
7.8%
21
🇨🇱Chile
7.3%
22
🇩🇰Denmark
7.2%
23
🇲🇳Mongolia
7.2%
24
🇳🇴Norway
7.1%
25
🇨🇿Czechia
6.9%
26
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6.9%
27
🇿🇲Zambia
6.8%
28
🇳🇱Netherlands
6.7%
29
🇰🇪Kenya
6.7%
30
🇬🇹Guatemala
6.5%
31
🇲🇻Maldives
6.5%
32
🇸🇷Suriname
6.2%
33
🇨🇭Switzerland
6.0%
34
🇲🇷Mauritania
5.8%
35
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
5.3%
36
🇧🇮Burundi
5.0%
37
🇩🇯Djibouti
5.0%
38
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
4.9%
39
🇸🇴Somalia
4.9%
40
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
4.8%
41
🇳🇪Niger
4.8%
42
🇫🇮Finland
4.7%
43
🇶🇦Qatar
4.4%
44
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
4.1%
45
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
3.6%
46
🇺🇬Uganda
3.5%
47
🇵🇦Panama
3.4%
48
🇳🇬Nigeria
3.1%
49
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
3.1%
50
🇦🇱Albania
2.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Comoros ranks first with 30.1%, followed by Malawi (28.9%) and France (15.5%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 30.1% (Comoros) to 0.1% (Kiribati), with a median of 6.5%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 4 from the Americas, 1 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Time spent dealing with the requirements of government regulations (% of senior management time), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Time spent dealing with the requirements of government regulations (% of senior management time) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026